Chapter Twenty-Six: Tranquility on the Eve of the Storm
Eight months later, on the bank of the Qinshui River, the young man held a sharpened slender wooden stick, and still looked a little rusty against the clear and visible river water, and the girl sighed "oops": "Ran away." Then he shouted excitedly: "This way, this way..."
The young man stabbed down again in the direction of the girl's finger, eh, it was really stabbed, and the girl danced happily when she saw this: "Brother Shen, are you amazing?" It turned out that the young man holding a sharpened slender wooden stick was Shen Wenqiu, and the girl who pointed out the country on the side was Du Xueshi;
The young man put the fish he caught on the fire and roasted it, a tempting fragrance came out, the girl's eyes were shining, and she swallowed her saliva involuntarily, Shen Wenqiu scraped her nose with her index finger and said with a smile: "Little gluttonous cat." ”
Since the Lantern Festival, Shen Wenqiu began their honeymoon journey with Dusk Snow Poems, in the past eight months, they have been to the Hancheng Temple in Nanshan Mansion to worship the solemn Bodhisattva of Baoxiang, to Liushan Mansion to see the spring breeze blowing of willows all over the mountain, to the Beihan River fishing song boating in the North Han Mansion, and then back to the broken temple when Nanli Mansion and Gongsun Ming first met, and now they are ready to go to Kyoto to see their former friends, and by the way, they pay homage to Twilight Snow Poem's grandfather;
Taking advantage of the effort of grilling the fish, Shen Wenqiu took out Fu Bo's wine gourd again and poured wine on the fish, this time Fu Bo didn't stop him, and he still remembered the grilled fish last time?
At this time, there were three horses, out of the official road in Kyoto, all the way to the Qinshui River;
In the past eight months, a lot of things have happened in Kyoto, on the night of the first day of the new year, some people saw Xianlaiju pulled out of thin air and disappeared from Kyoto, and when people talked about it, some older people remembered that Xianlaiju was established in Kyoto for nearly a hundred years, and Xianlaiju's buddy Yahuan did not know how many batches were changed;
But only the storyteller Mr. Yang and the beautiful proprietress have always been the first to come to Kyoto, and they can't help but call Mr. Yang and the proprietress are immortals and blessed them, otherwise, how can they have the opportunity to hear so many strange stories, how can they have the opportunity to eat the 'hungry cat' This kind of delicacy that is rare in the world.
As for the assassins, I haven't seen them again, but there is one more thief, who goes to the homes of corrupt officials who take bribes and empties their homes, such as the home of Wu Tiexin, the head of the household, who was stolen two or three times in succession, but he didn't catch the thieves;
Because the money is bribes, if it is heard by the people of the Imperial Tower, I am afraid that I don't know how many times I will be impeached before I will take a break, so I don't dare to make a noise, but I also checked it in private, but every time a corrupt official's house is stolen, those silver coins will inexplicably appear in the hands of the poor people in Kyoto, and they can't arrest these people one by one!
It's better to be obedient at the feet of the Son of Heaven, so as not to harm the Qin family; although he can't catch them all, he also caught one or two and probed them; the result is a woman in black wearing a night suit, and there are no other characteristics, there are countless women in Kyoto, who do you let them catch;
Among them, the most depressed is Su Qingshu, at the beginning, this female thief stole the family funds of several corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and he also followed the people to applaud, but he didn't expect that after a few days, his 150,000 taels were also stolen completely, so he wondered if he only stole the family funds of corrupt officials and corrupt officials?
I'm not a corrupt official, why don't I steal it, it's too unsophisticated! For this reason, he also arranged this thief in front of Su Yunxin, but he didn't know that this thief was sitting in front of him, and the reason why Su Yunxin stole Su Qingshu's 150,000 taels and distributed them to the people was that she thought that Su Qingshu's 150,000 taels belonged to ill-gotten gains;
Since Su Qingshu lost the 150,000 taels, he went to the street to play on the street when he had nothing to do, hoping to meet someone with the ability like him Brother Shen and get him another 150,000 taels back, and often muttered that he hoped that his Brother Shen could appear in front of him like a god, not to remember Shen Wenqiu, but to hope that he could give himself another big gift;
As for Gongsun Ming, he is also very prosperous in Kyoto, although his official rank is not very high, he has become a big celebrity around the king, second only to the existence of Gonggong Lin, the king is virtuous, but it does not violate his original intention of joining the office.
A few days ago, they received a letter from Shen Wenqiu that he wanted to return to Kyoto, and the calculation date was almost up, Su Qingshu and Gongsun Ming had to go to the official road to meet him, Su Yunxin couldn't resist these two people, so he had no choice but to follow them and ride a fast horse along the official road.
On the bank of the Qinshui River, Shen Wenqiu handed the fragrant fish to Du Xueshi, kept one for himself, and gave the rest to Fu Bo, who smiled silly and said, "Thank you young master, thank you young grandma." Then he ate the grilled fish with his own wine;
Twilight Snow Shi took a bite and praised, "Brother Shen, the fish you grilled is so delicious." Shen Wenqiu doted: "If Xue Shi likes to eat, Brother Shen will bake it for you every day." Twilight Xueshi didn't reply, but gave him a sweet smile, she knew that Brother Shen couldn't pluck the stars in the sky for herself, but she could definitely do it for herself to bake fish, and she didn't refuse or agree, as long as he liked to bake it, she was willing to eat it.
During this period, Shen Wenqiu also told her about the first time he ate grilled fish here with Su Yunxin, Gongsun Ming, and Fu Bo that day.
Shen Wenqiu said with relief: "Xue Shi doesn't have to be a pity, although you have not participated in Brother Shen's past, but Brother Shen's future has your existence!"
Fu Bo watched that the young master and the young grandmother had been married for eight months, and they were still so tired, and he was happy for them in his heart, and at the same time, he couldn't help but think of his old wife, who was holding his broken gourd like a baby;
His gourd has been with him for almost forty years, this is a token of love given to him by his wife back then, so he cherishes it extraordinarily, although he did not give his wife a life like a young master and a young grandmother, and lived a poor life, but he was also willing to let her starve.
Shen Wenqiu has always threatened to throw away his broken gourd, and if he really throws it, it is estimated that Fu Bo will fight with him regardless of whether he is a young master or not.
In the early morning of the next day, when Shen Wenqiu and the three of them packed their bags and were about to leave, they looked up and saw several figures flying in the sky, and Fu Bo knelt down for them as if they were immortals;
On the other hand, Shen Wenqiu hugged the beautiful woman in his arms, calmly but puzzledly looked at the few people in front of him, and he didn't know what a few people meant by looking at him, probably because his brain was a little unable to turn around, and he remembered what he argued with Gongsun Ming in the Wensi Hall that day, "The mountain is not high, there are immortals, the name is immortal, the water is not deep, and the dragon is spiritual." ”
Could it be that there are really immortals in this world, before he had time to think about it, he saw these four people kneeling on the ground and shouting "Holy Maiden".
Shen Wenqiu and Fu Bo both looked at Twilight Xue Shi suspiciously, and Du Xue Shi also looked at the kneeling people in front of her suspiciously, and at the same time looked at her eldest brother Shen; each could see the puzzled look in each other's eyes, obviously for their actions, the three of them hadn't figured out what the situation was!
The four people kneeling on the ground saw that they didn't respond for a long time, and then they remembered that the saint had not recovered her memory, and she didn't understand what she meant, so she got up in embarrassment, and one of the strong men, seeing Shen Wenqiu holding their holy daughter, lost his temper, and pointed at Shen Wenqiu and angrily reprimanded: "Bold, you dare to blaspheme the saint, and don't take away your dirty hands, beware that I want your life." ”
Seeing his fierce appearance, Shen Wenqiu was not afraid of him, but hugged Du Xueshi tighter, for fear that this group of people would snatch her, and shouted to the strong man with disdain: "I hold my daughter-in-law, what does it matter to you." ”
What does it matter to them, people have said that this is their holy daughter, so why is it none of their business.
When the strong man heard his words, he raised his hand without saying a word, pinched a peculiar trick, and made a gesture to Shen Wenqiu to buckle his neck, and as soon as he raised his hand, he saw Shen Wenqiu flying up from the ground, as if someone was pinching his neck;
Shen Wenqiu reflexively let go of Twilight Snow Poetry, and at the same time kept breaking his hands around his neck, his expression seemed to be out of breath;
But he didn't see that he had the intention of letting go of Shen Wenqiu, Shen Wenqiu's face gradually turned the color of pig liver; one person next to him knew that the man's temper was up, and he was the master who refused to give up easily, so he condensed his palm and hit the man, and scolded: "Manqi, you are crazy, kill him, you are not afraid of karma and ruining the Dao heart?"
The man didn't seem to hear his words, and he didn't care about the palm he slapped on himself, and rushed to Shen Wenqiu, who had just fallen to the ground and was helped up by Twilight Xueshi, and slapped Shen Wenqiu with one palm;
Shen Wenqiu received this palm and a mouthful of blood spurted out, fainted, and Fu Bo, who was originally stunned, saw this scene, and rushed to the man desperately, but was also knocked out by the man with a palm;
Twilight Xue Shi cried anxiously and shouted and knelt beside Shen Wenqiu who had fainted, this Man Qi seemed to be still angry, and walked towards Twilight Xue Shi to kill Shen Wenqiu lying on the ground, the person who had just come out of his palm, and shouted: "Enough, Man Qi." ”
This brute seven woke up from his anger, slapped Twilight Snow Shi unconscious, put it on his shoulder and looked at the three of them, got up and flew away with disdain, and the three of them didn't bother with him anymore, and flew away with a kick of their legs, from the sky to the sky, leaving no trace.
Soon after they left, the three horsemen came to the dust, and when they saw two people lying by the river, they immediately jumped off their galloping horses, and when they saw the blood stains on the ground, their hearts sank, especially one of them, who walked to the young man lying on the ground, and cried: "Brother Shen, can't you die? Brother, are you still waiting for you to win me another 150,000 taels back?"
It turned out that these three people were Su Qingshu, Gongsun Ming, and Su Yunxin; compared to Su Qingshu's exaggeration, Su Yunxin seemed calmer, probed their noses, found that there was still breath, and scolded: "Don't cry, you're still alive, hurry up and send it to the medical hall in the city in front." With that, they were thrown on horseback, and the three of them rode again and galloped toward the city through which they had passed.